In Voyager: Seeking newer worlds in the third great age of discovery, Stephen Pyne tells the story of the probes as part of the history of exploration
DESPITE hurtling along at 300,000 kilometres per second, sunlight still takes nearly 16 hours to reach Voyager 1, the most distant object ever made by humans.
Along with its twin, Voyager 2, the NASA probe continues to send back measurements, decades after the two visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in their grand tour of the outer solar system.
Voyager reminds us just how audacious an idea the mission was back…
